The Design of Batik Stamp tool Scraping Working Table Using Ergonomics Principles

AbstractBatik industries are small medium enterprises supported by Indonesian Government. Batik industries produce two kinds of Batik called Write batik and Stamp Batik. Stamp Batik production process involves of four main stages; 1. Stamp batik Design, 2. Stamp tool preparation, 3. Wax ink stamping process, 4. Batik immersion. All of those mentioned processes are done traditionally. There are some aspects among all those four aspects that could be improved using scientific study without eliminating their originality. There is one process in Stamp tool preparation stage called stamp tool scraping process which was done without any scientific study. This arises to a problem called workers musculoskeletal disorders due to awkward posture. This research aims to design an ergonomic working table called batik stamp tool scraping working table to improve working posture during stamp tool scraping process. The research conducted in a batik small medium enterprise which has 4 workers who scrape the Batik Stamp tools. All previously mentioned workers are involved to be surveyed in this research. RULA was used to evaluate working posture to find the specific problem. In addition, Ulrich-Eppinger product development process and Anthropometry concept were also implemented to develop batik stamp tool scraping working table based on the problem previously found. The result is the proposed working table which specifications are has 4 round legs with octagon surface, slope of 0 degrees, closed supporting tools storage case and pulled storage mechanism